Had a fantastic time last week at the @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, which I co-organised w/ @aandres.bsky.social and Liam. Really excellent selection of papers & conversations throughout the day!
“…in my writing, I want to display a self that disintegrates. I can prop that up with theory, but something must compel me in the first place. I suppose that’s when the world can enter. Goodbye, defenses.”
Max Shirley
Spread the word: Reactionary Worldbuilding is out today!
Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’
Stefan Collini on universities
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Max Shirley
I had to sit through an ed tech product pitch today so for all my #academicsky followers and comrades, here's what Turnitin is currently selling (stick around for what's on their product roadmap) so you can prepare yourselves to strenuously reject it. 🧵
I hope Saidya Hartman comes to this person's house and beats their ass herself
